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Using data from the Vietnam Labor Force Survey, this paper takes a granular look at the mostsalient drivers of labor informality in Vietnam by examining: (i) the nature of labor informalityand transitions from formal to informal employment status and the role of worker characteristics;(ii) the...
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Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women … inequality among low-skill females. Wage-level cohort effects underpin a nearly 10 percent fall in expected lifetime earnings for …
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The paper explains how a country can fall into a quot;low-skill, bad-job trap,quot; in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms...
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We document a large decrease in earnings inequality in Brazil between 1996 and 2012.Using administrative linked … drivers of earnings inequality dynamics …
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The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth to major sources of labor market determinants, in the...
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The growth of Italian exports has lagged that of euro area peers. Against the backdrop ofunit labor costs that have risen faster than those in euro area peers, this paper examines whether there is a competitiveness challenge in Italy and evaluates the framework of wage bargaining. Wages are set...
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empirically the impact of past major pandemics on robot adoption and inequality. First, we find that pandemic events accelerate …, while robots may raise productivity, they could also increase inequality by displacing low-skilled workers. We find that … following a pandemic, the increase in inequality over the medium term is larger for economies with higher robot density and …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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Labor markets in Australia have adjusted smoothly to significant declines in commodity priceswith little increase in unemployment. This paper examines several aspects of the adjustment,focusing on (i) evidence of increased labor market frictions following the commodity pricedecline; (ii)...
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Firms play an important role in shaping income inequality at the aggregated country level, given that wages represent a …, relying on firm level data to explore the implications for betweenfirms earning inequality in ASEAN5 countries over the period … market Gini. Our empirical findings show that capital account liberalization increases between-firms wage inequality, as …
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